Dr. Marc Steinberg is a clinical psychologist and the training director of the Doctoral Psychology Internship program at Rutgers University Behavioral Health Care in Piscataway, NJ. His primary academic appointment is in the Department of Psychiatry at Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School where he is a Professor of Psychiatry and the director of the Tobacco Research & Intervention lab.
His research focuses on tobacco use and dependence, including tobacco dependence treatment development, tobacco use in smokers with psychiatric comorbidity, the relationship between smoking and task persistence/distress tolerance, and motivational interviewing as an approach to encourage smokers to make a quit attempt. As a member of the Motivational Interviewing Network of Trainers, he also trains clinicians in the use of motivational interviewing.
Dr. Steinberg is a Deputy Editor for the journal Nicotine & Tobacco Research and a Consulting Editor for Psychology of Addictive Behaviors.
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